Category Archives: Family (mine, usually)

An update

February 25, 2009 – 10:34 am

Still here, but dealing with a family crisis, repainting the house, fighting with a scam roofing company that owes me a full refund (more on that later), building a fence. Oh, and a new job. I start next Monday. I’m the Facilities Manager for our church. It’s part time, but at least its something.
Too busy […]

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Happy Name Day!

September 9, 2008 – 8:20 am

According to tradition, Anna, the ancestor of God, lived for sixty-nine years, and her spouse Joachim, for eighty; according to one account, Saint Joachim died two years before Saint Anna. The Theotokos had been orphaned of both her parents already when she was eleven years of age, when she was living in the Temple (see […]

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Public School Challenge

August 9, 2008 – 8:48 am

Mr. Bob has an excellent 2-part series on the challenges his family faced in public school. After realizing the first of their 4 children were not being taught in the Jefferson County Public Schools, they made a change.
The shock we had that day is why three of our other children attended private, or home or […]

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Always wanted this

May 22, 2008 – 2:52 pm

When Emma was a toddler she constantly tried to climb into our laps to help herself to meal time. It was just impossible to eat for a year. That, combined with the new baby toys all over the floor making it more of a circus act to walk through the house, made us think about […]

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National Charter Schools Week

May 13, 2008 – 2:00 pm

It’s National Charter Schools Week, and that means lots of chatter in Washington, D.C., about whether charter schools hurt or improve public education. … The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, which favors the expansion of charter schools, conducted a March poll of 800 registered voters and found a majority of them want more public […]

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